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	Science Daily update ⋅ August 22, 2020
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	Space.com Cold as (lunar) ice: Protecting the moon's polar regions from contamination Space.com Permanently shadowed regions at the moon's poles have a story to tell. Sun-shy polar ice patches could not only yield an account of lunar history but also offer astrobiological clues regarding the origin of life. The permanently shadowed floors of polar craters ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com India's Chandrayaan-2 moon mission hits 1-year mark in lunar orbit Space.com India's Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has finished one year and 4,400 trips around the moon — and the spacecraft is just getting started, Indian space agency officials said Thursday (Aug. 20). "The spacecraft is healthy and performance of subsystems are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now SES orders two more Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX Spaceflight Now SES announced Thursday it has tapped SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver more Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites into orbit, adding to a pair of Falcon 9 flights ordered by SES last year to launch the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA creates Mars sample-return independent review board Space.com With the NASA Perseverance rover on its way to the Red Planet, NASA is getting ready for the next major step in Mars exploration — a sample return mission. NASA recently established a Mars Sample Return Program Independent Review Board to evaluate ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Tour China's 'Mars yard' for its Tianwen-1 rover mission (video) Space.com To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built a simulated Martian landscape on Earth and took the new rover out for a test drive. The Tianwen-1 Mars mission, which launched to the Red Planet in July ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com SpaceX raises $1.9 billion in latest funding round: report Space.com SpaceX has raised over $1.9 billion in new funding this month, representing its largest single fundraising round to date, according to a report from SpaceNews. A regulatory filing on Tuesday (Aug. 18) showed that 75 investors made equity investments in Elon ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Multiple star explosions may have contributed to a mass extinction on Earth CNN (CNN) Simultaneous explosions of stars, called supernovae, may have led to one of Earth's mass extinctions 359 million years ago, according to new research. Several global extinction events occurred during Devonian period, which lasted from 359 million to ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Sunrise at Copernicus crater: How to see the 'Monarch of the Moon' Space.com To the owner of a small telescope the moon is more interesting than anything else in the sky, because it's close enough to be seen really well. Even binoculars will show features on its surface. But you don't need a telescope to enjoy the moon. Even a casual ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Rogue planets could outnumber the stars Phys.Org An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets—planets that float in space without orbiting a sun—than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes. "This gives us a window into these worlds that we would otherwise not ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Greenland lost a record amount of ice in 2019, study finds Washington Post Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet of water, a new study said. After two years when summer ice melt had been minimal, last summer shattered all records ... Flag as irrelevant
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